Bing Makes More Slight Gains in Search Wars

comScore released its search engine traffic results for February, and once again its good news for Microsoft--which has, naturally once again come at the expense of Yahoo. Bing is continuing its slow but steady crawl to number two, rising from 11.3 to 11.5 percent of the search market.

ComScore released its search engine traffic results for February, and once again, it's good news for Microsoft--once again, at the expense of Yahoo. Bing is continuing its slow but steady crawl to number two, rising from 11.3 to 11.5 percent of the search market.

Yahoo dropped from 17.0 to 16.8 percent from January to February. Google, meanwhile, managed a slight bump for the month of February, from 65.4 to 65.5 percent of the U.S. search market.

Brian Heater has worked at a number of tech pubs, including Engadget, Laptop, and PCMag (where he served as Senior Editor). Most recently, he was as the Managing Editor of TechTimes.com. His writing has appeared in Spin, Wired, Playboy, Entertainment Weekly, The Onion, Boing Boing, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast and various other publications. He hosts the weekly Boing Boing interview podcast RiYL, has appeared as a regular NPR contributor and shares his Queens apartment with a rabbit named Lucy.
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